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What difference does it make to the dead,the orphans, and the homeless,whether the mad destruction is wroughtunder the name of totalitarianismor the holy name of liberty or democracy?- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A person may rightfully be happy if in this life hecould do a great favor for widows and orphans,could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.- Islom Karimov

I will work with my colleagues on both sides of theaisle to preserve the Social Security promise thatprovides secure retirement benefits for all,especially those who are most at risk such as widows,orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.- Chaka Fattah

Do not let Sunday be taken from you.If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.- Albert Schweitzer

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.- Lady Bird Johnson

Victory has a thousand fathers,but defeat is an orphan.- John F. Kennedy

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers,and failure is an orphan.- Alan Price

Poetry is an orphan of silence.The words never quite equal the experience behind them.- Charles Simic

I feel akin to the Platypus.An orphan in a family.A swimmer, a recluse.Part bird, part fish, part lizard.- Trevor Dunn

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.- Galeazzo Ciano

A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots,his heritage.He feels like an orphan without his parents.- Raj Kapoor

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone.It is an orphan form.- John Berger

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.- Galeazzo Ciano

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley,you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the mostfantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.- Marguerite Young

We call that person who has lost his father,an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife.But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend,by what name do we call him? Here every language issilent and holds its peace in impotence.- Joseph Roux

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh,vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't...you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son.- Witold Gombrowicz

Not everyone can be an orphan.- Andre Gide

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!- Red Buttons

We did a show called The Orphan Train,during the depression, when families didn't have enoughmoney to support their children,they'd put them on the train and hope someone wouldpick them up who had enough money to support their children.- Robert Stack

This country owes them all a debt of gratitude.The down payment on that debt is making sure that welive up to Lincoln's charge:to care for him who shall have borne the battle,and for his widow, and his orphan.- Dave Obey

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures.The daily media add to this by cutting off the past.Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.- John Berger

Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old,but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected,which means that so far over 12 million African childrenhave been orphaned because of AIDS.- Marvin Olasky

I go to Malawi twice a year.It's where two of my children were adopted from,and I have a lot of projects there that I go and checkup on and children who I look after.It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this countryand the hundreds of thousands of children there whohave been orphaned by AIDS.- Madonna Ciccone

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to theUnited States from Ireland.My father never knew his parents.His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth,and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.- George J. Mitchell

The steel workers have now buried their dead,while the widows weep and watch their orphaned childrenbecome objects of public charity.The murder of these unarmed men has never been publiclyrebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.- John L. Lewis

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...Forgive them anyway.- Kent Keith(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copyon the wall of her orphanage)

"Mother Teresa Prayer"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;... Forgive them anyway.If you are kind, people may accuse youof selfish, ulterior motives;... Be kind anyway.If you are successful, you will win somefalse friends and some true enemies;... Succeed anyway.If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;... Be honest and frank anyway.What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;... Build anyway.If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;... Be happy anyway.The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;... Do good anyway.Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;... Give the world the best you've got anyway.You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;It was never between you and them anyway.We can do no great things - only small things with great love.- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,who kept a copy of this prayer onthe wall of her Calcutta orphanage,this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage -he shot both his parents and moved in.- Bob Hope

The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.- Eric Roberts

I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya.I do a lot of work for Born Free.- Rachel Hunter

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.- Ziggy Marley

So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston.He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine,who gave him the name of Mitchell.He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.- George J. Mitchell

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind.Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said,'Would you take my son with you?' He knew,in Ireland, that his son would live,and that in Ethiopia,his son would die.- Bono

My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village,and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'dbe out of the World War too.But no way - they got him anyway.He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.- Gregory Corso

People will forget what you said,people will forget what you did,but people will never forgethow you made them feel.- Maya Angelou

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,of most of the people you see every day,is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.- Theodore H. White

People only see what they are prepared to see.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and much;to win the respect of intelligent peopleand the affection of children,to leave the world a better place,to know even one life has breathed easierbecause you have lived,this is to have succeeded.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear defeats more people thanany other one thing in the world.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When people get caught up with that which is rightand they are willing to sacrifice for it,there is no stopping point short of victory.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I believe that everything happens for a reason.People change so that you can learn to let go,things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.- Marilyn Monroe

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.For, indeed, that's all who ever have.- Margaret Mead